Scope and Goals

During this Charter period the Working Group will focus on publishing a
strict profile of the EXI 1.0 format for memory-constrained devices, especially
devices with little or no run-time memory allocation, and on canonicalization
as it pertains to the EXI format.

The Working Group may also work on gathering requirements for future work.
Future work might for example include a new revision of the EXI format, to
account for XML Schema 1.1 and also the XPath and XQuery Data Model (XDM), as
well as working with the SVG Working Group to achieve increased benefits for
that format, and perhaps also for HTML 5.

Out of scope

This Working Group is not chartered to:

Introduce a new data model for XML;

Develop an application-specific format. Like XML itself, the new format
must support a wide variety of applications.

W3C Groups

External Groups

Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) develops standards for mobile device
industry. Specifications such as OMA Device Management use XML and are
designed with sensitivity to implementation foot-print and communication
bandwidth.

Working Group participation

Effective participation is expected to consume one workday per week for each
Working Group participant; two days per week for editors. The Chair shall
ensure that the criteria for Good
Standing are understood and followed.

Chair

The chair of this Working Group is Takuki Kamiya (Fujitsu).

W3C Team resources

The initial W3C Team
contacts are Carine Bournez and Liam Quin. It is expected that this Working
Group will consume up to 0.25 FTE,
including administrative logistics.

Meetings

The Working Group will have distributed meetings, one to two hours every
week, and one or two face–to–face meetings each year.

Communication

Confidentiality

The proceedings of this Working Group are Member-only,
subject to exceptions made by the Chair, after consultation with the Working
Group.

Patent Policy

This Working Group operates under the W3C Patent
Policy (5 February 2004 Version). To promote the widest adoption of Web
standards, W3C seeks to issue Recommendations that can be implemented,
according to this policy, on a Royalty–Free basis.

About this Charter

This charter for the EXI Working Group has been created according to section 6.2 of the Process Document.
In the event of a conflict between the provisions of any charter and the W3C
Process, the W3C Process shall take precedence.